Opinion
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Greg Forster: The Research Conclusively Supports School Vouchers
Opinion -School choice opponents frequently claim vouchers don't improve recipients' academics, hurt public schools, cost taxpayers, increase segregation, and even reduce civic unity. -
Catholic University Appeals Dismissal of Contraception Mandate Lawsuit
Opinion -An Ohio Roman Catholic university is appealing the dismissal of its lawsuit against the Obama administration regarding the HHS mandate to provide free contraception to employees and students. -
Have Patience With the Obamacare Train Wreck
Opinion -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is listening to his Democratic colleagues, and what he's hearing are loud concerns about the implementation of Obamacare. Reid's answer? We need more money to implement it:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev. -
Housing Renters Being Squeezed Harder: Report
Opinion -The incidence of severe housing cost burdens among working renter households has risen for the third consecutive year, according to the newest edition of the Center for Housing Policy (CHP)’s annual Housing Landscape report. -
Universal, Single-Payer Health Care Coming to Colorado?
Opinion -Most state legislators around the nation are focusing on efforts either to implement or to resist President Obama’s health care law. -
Banker Expresses Fears of Current Fed Policy
Opinion -The Federal Reserve is doing aggressive buying of mortgage-backed securities, which is what is likely behind the fact that banks are slowing down the number of mortgages they are originating. -
Modeling Northern Hemispheric Winters
Opinion -How good are the simulations of the most up-to-date climate models? Authors Kim et al. (2012) assessed the seasonal prediction skill for the Northern Hemisphere winter and found a number of biases that have yet to be overcome... -
Health Savings Accounts Continue to Grow in Popularity
Opinion -New research from the Employment Benefits Research Institute shows health savings accounts, a key part of consumer driven health plans, continue to grow in popularity despite President Obama’s efforts to discourage their use via his health care law. -
Lite Drinkers
Opinion -Beer drinkers from three different states are hoping to collect some drinking money by suing Anheuser-Busch. They claim 11 different beers did not have as much alcohol content as advertised. -
Only Government Complains About Having More Customers
Opinion -Every private sector company spends every waking second (and many sleeping ones) trying to get new customers. It’s a relentless pursuit of improvement. -
Secret Meeting with Bond Underwriters Fuels Speculation in Philadelphia
Opinion -Why such secrecy in Philadelphia? No one who knows will say because, well, it’s a secret. This much we do know: Mayor Michael Nutter and other city officials in April held a two-day conference financed by municipal bond underwriters. -
States Explore Alternatives to Standardized Testing
Opinion -Online schools, mobile technology, and independent students are beginning to bring promising innovations to the heart of modern education: Standardized testing. There is growing restlessness about standardized testing and teaching methods. -
Support Drilling, Fracking, Keystone…and Exports
Opinion -The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. -
Attorneys General Demand Broader Religious Exemptions to Contraception Mandate
Opinion -More than a quarter of the nation’s state attorneys general signed a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. -
Judge Rules Ball State May Seize Print Shop for Hotel, Dorm Project
Opinion -An Indiana judge has ruled Ball State University can proceed to use eminent domain against a print shop in Muncie, Ind. Hiatt Printing, a family-owned business of 40 years, can be seized in order to build a $25. -
Kansas Law Lets Teachers Choose Political Donations
Opinion -A labor expert is praising a new Kansas law for promoting teachers' freedom to make informed political choices, and opinion polls show strong public support for it, including union members and government employees. Republican Gov. -
Michigan Governor Backs Auto Insurance Reform
Opinion -Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has announced he plans to seek legislation to end the state’s unique requirement that all auto insurance policies provide unlimited lifetime medical benefits. -
Fisker: Free to Make Flashy Cars in Finland
Opinion -With nearly a year’s worth of exclusive reporting on Obama’s green-energy crony-corruption scandal, you might think we’ve covered them all—but the hits just keep on coming. -
Tide Gauges Show Six Inches of Sea Level Rise Per Century
Opinion -Sea level is rising at a pace of merely six inches per century, tide gauges at 86 coastal stations in Australia show. Scientists reported the tide gauge data in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science. -
Questions Loom as EB-5 Investment Program Explodes
Opinion -The EB-5 visa program is big business in Florida. A few years ago, four regional centers in the state were soliciting foreign investor money in exchange for U.S. citizenship. More than two dozen are doing so now. -
Congress on Obamacare: Stop This Train Wreck Already
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #371This Obamacare thing is not going as well as some had hoped. -
Dodd-Frank Flaws, Continued Failures Explained
Opinion -Although the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is nearing its three-year anniversary, its effects are still not known. It remains a work in progress, as many of its rules have not been written. -
Little Charter School Bill Passes Kentucky Senate, Fails House
Opinion -A limited bill to introduce charter schools in Kentucky passed the state’s Senate, but failed in the House. Kentucky has almost no school choice, unless families can afford private school tuition or higher property taxes in a school district they prefer. -
Russian Scientists Predict Onset of Global Cooling
Opinion -A prolonged decline in solar output will begin sometime around 2040 and subject the Earth to global cooling that will last 200-250 years, scientists at Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory report.